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Pinball Arcade Remake Musings

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myPinballs

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So, I was never a big fan of digital pinball games, but recently have been enjoying games on various titles. Some i used to own some i haven't. I believe i have changed my mind on this. I also see the benefit for new pinball people and for others wanting to get a feel for a game. So this leads me onto the following:

Why do they not digitise games using the best restoration or example they can find. I found this when playing Cactus Canyon

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Which clearly shows rusty screws and dirt towards the back of the game and around the bart toy. Am i being too picky here, or do you also think they should do a decent stripdown and rebuild of both the top and underside playfields first , before taking the digitising photos?

The latest game to be released - Starship troopers also appears to have been digitised using a worn and knocked about cabinet!
 
Ever thought that maybe you need to get out more;)

It's a digital game that costs a few pounds and we're discussing a rusty screw. If anything it makes it more realistic.

For me Pinball Arcade sucks with the on screen movement which makes me feel almost seasick. I would never have notice a small bit of dirt in a photo.

I'm guessing if you are fixating on this then games in the wild must really do your head it.

It's strange though what little things annoy people. Personally the match game sequence in STTNG always annoys me as it's so lame. No real rational reason here but it never fails to irritate me
 
johnwhitfield said:
It's strange though what little things annoy people. Personally the match game sequence in STTNG always annoys me as it's so lame. No real rational reason here but it never fails to irritate me
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For me it's the "Hey Hey - Ball Saved" on Flintstones. I hate it! I hate it so much!! It makes me want to smash the machine into pieces. Even thinking about it now has given me the hump! Totally irrational of course. I don't know why it grates on me so much.
Stupid ****ing Barney and his fat ****ing face!
 
It looks so bad. Low poly business. The textures are absolutely shocking as well. Round all that up with the physics being appalling I will give that build a 2 out of 10.

I think this was one of there older tables, which they never get revisited on, plus the textures were ported straight off the mobile versions. They're the laziest games company known to man, but standard issue peeps keep throwing money into the cash cow it won't change.

The T2 was awful too, like the play fields been through the washing machine a few times. That is when I stopped supporting them.

I'm glad you posted that anyway, I can be nice for the rest of the day now that's out of system :)
 
Fintan Stack said:
For me it's the "Hey Hey - Ball Saved" on Flintstones. I hate it! I hate it so much!! It makes me want to smash the machine into pieces. Even thinking about it now has given me the hump! Totally irrational of course. I don't know why it grates on me so much.
Stupid ****ing Barney and his fat ****ing face!
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Happy Saturday!!
 
johnwhitfield said:
It's strange though what little things annoy people. Personally the match game sequence in STTNG always annoys me as it's so lame. No real rational reason here but it never fails to irritate me
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Yes, it does annoy me. My view in general is 'if a job's worth doing, then it's worth doing well' (yes, i know its a bit of a cheesy phrase) I don't think its all bad, and i support their efforts in promoting pinball to the masses, but for the love of god just use decent examples of the games before you start!

Also, I buy the pro versions usually so you can go into the operator menus, change things etc which help s a lot with my code projects. Anyway, here's my next grumble:

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No start button option on the screen..... What? So you can't save a change quickly and you can't use the extra test features during coil,switch,lamps test either. How hard is it to add another button????
 
Annoying things in Pinball? Whaat the hell are you on about?

That said i've had over 12 months of 'wrong hat' from R&B here so maybe i've just got a tonne more patience from that. ;-)
 
The older version of 'williams pinball classics' on the ps2/wii/psp etc had much better physics. Mad but true.
 
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